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| Owner | Sun Broadcasting, Inc. |
| Operator | Fort Myers Broadcasting Company viaSSA |
| WANA-LD,WINK-TV,WXCW | |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
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| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15kW |
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| Translator | WXCW 46.3 Naples |
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WUVF-LD (channel 2) is alow-power television station licensed toNaples, Florida, United States, servingSouthwest Florida as an affiliate of the Spanish-language networksUnivision andUniMás. Locally owned by Sun Broadcasting, it issister to two other Naples-licensed stations:CW affiliateWXCW (channel 46) and low-power WANA-LD (channel 16).Fort Myers Broadcasting Company, which ownsFort Myers–licensedCBS affiliateWINK-TV (channel 11), operates WUVF, WXCW, and WANA under ashared services agreement (SSA). The stations share studios on Palm Beach Boulevard (SR 80) in northeast Fort Myers; WUVF-LD's transmitter is located on Channel 30 Drive (on a tower shared with several radio stations).
WLZE-LD (channel 51) in Fort Myers operates as atranslator of WUVF-LD; this station's transmitter is located north ofFort Myers Shores near theCharlotte–Lee county line.
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On April 4, 2008,Equity Media Holdings announced the sale of all five of its Southwest Florida stations (including WUVF and WLZE) toLuken Communications for $8 million. Equity has cited corporate financial losses as a reason for the sale.[3] Equity Media Holdings filed forChapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2008;[4] offers by Luken Communications to acquire Equity-owned stations in six markets were later withdrawn.[5]
WUVF and WLZE were sold at auction toprivate equity firmSilver Point Capital on April 16, 2009.[6] The sale was finalized on August 17, 2009.[7] Following the purchase, WUVF surrendered itsClass A classification.
WLZE began to be carried onDish Network on October 7, 2009; thesatellite provider had earlier obtained WUVF's programming via sister stationWEVU-CA (channel 4), which had served as a WUVF satellite since 2006 (and simulcast the 6 p.m. newscast for some time before adding the remainder of WUVF's schedule), that station was taken silent on August 14, 2009—three days before the completion of the sale to Silver Point.[8] SP Television reached a deal to sell WUVF and WLZE to Media Vista Group on December 21, 2012.[9]
On April 1, 2019, Media Vista Group announced that it was selling its stations, including WUVF-LD, to Sun Broadcasting, Inc. for $9.75 million.[10] The sale was completed on July 1, 2019.[11]
During the mid-2000s, after joining Univision, WUVF began airing half-hour Spanish-language local newscasts at 6 and 11 p.m. The broadcasts were produced out of Equity Media's headquarters inLittle Rock, Arkansas, with news reports filed by reporters based in Southwest Florida. The newscasts were canceled in June 2008, after Equity instituted a companywide suspension of news programs as a cost-cutting measure.[12] Local news returned to the station in 2013 as part of theD'Latinos program, produced and aired locally by Media Vista.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming | |
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| 2.1 | 51.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WLZE-LD | Univision |
| 2.2 | 51.2 | 720p | WLZE | UniMás | |
| 2.3 | 51.3 | Audio only | 97.7 | Simulcast ofWTLQ-FM | |
| 2.5 | 51.5 | 97.3 | Simulcast ofWINK-FM-HD2 | ||
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